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Definition of Gonad
1. Noun. A gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced.
Generic synonyms: Ductless Gland, Endocrine, Endocrine Gland
Specialized synonyms: Ovary, Ovotestis, Ball, Ballock, Bollock, Egg, Nut, Orchis, Testicle, Testis
Derivative terms: Gonadal
Definition of Gonad
1. n. One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland.
Definition of Gonad
1. Noun. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary. ¹
2. Noun. (slang in the plural) The testicles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gonad
1. a sex gland [n -S] : GONADAL, GONADIAL, GONADIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Gonad
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonad
Literary usage of Gonad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"It has three divisions: (1) the anterior or sexual division, containing the gonad,
involves about the anterior half of the Wolffian body; (2) a non-sexual ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"To this category belong certain sacs and in many, perhaps most, genera of the
Oligochaeta family. Es and possibly the gonad ducts in the Hirudinea. ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"... new species: left side and right sides of body, gonad, dorsal tubercle, part
of the circle of tentacles, and part of branchial sac. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In each of these latter group» the pore may be—(1) devoid of a duct, (2) provided
with л duct which ú unattached to the gonad and open« into the body- ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"The development of the gonad also is not what von Erlanger describes it to be,
for, whereas the kidney is an evagination of the original ventral wall of the ..."
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